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Drydock Assignment, What happens to the sailors.

Posted by Jonathan Losche on December 19, 2015 at 8:00pm

When my son gets back from his deployment his ship will be going into dry dock. I am curious as to what happens to the sailors when this happens. Are they moved to barracks, given shore duty, assigned to other ships or do they continue on the ship and continue as usual?

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andy niewinski December 28, 2015 at 7:31pm

they usually move to barracks. go to ship to work during the maintence period.. my sailor has been there for more than a year ..a lot of duty but they are land based.. get some time ..off during week or weekends. just depends whats going on....mine just got promoted to e5 so moving off base to a apartment because getting BAH.
Dennis Helmke December 24, 2015 at 9:58pm

My stepson's ship has been in maintenance for a year, the ones that did not move to barracks lived on a barge next to the ship, they had duty, watches, training and did some of the work/maintenance.
NavyDads Admin (Paul) December 20, 2015 at 8:37pm

I knew what you meant bud....and I have a YouTube channel just for that purpose but didn't want to go thru the waiting for stuff to upload on an Advent Sunday....had other priorities!
NavyDads Admin (Paul) December 20, 2015 at 8:00pm

its unusual that they keep those on YouTube for this long....a lot of the Navy vids are only up for about a year or so
Jonathan Losche December 20, 2015 at 7:56pm

They're already on YouTube so I can grab them from there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke6wUEWJg2w
Jonathan Losche December 20, 2015 at 7:53pm

It would have to be the originals copied to YouTube then I could copy them down.
NavyDads Admin (Paul) December 20, 2015 at 7:23pm

I have a number of the vids as files on my system, but don't think I have them all anymore...over the next couple of days let me see if I can organize those and how much space they take....if not too bad I might be able to write to a disc and send it to you--
Jonathan Losche December 20, 2015 at 6:59pm

I think the page is coded to block remote saving of the video file.
NavyDads Admin (Paul) December 20, 2015 at 6:38pm

I just tried RealPlayer- don't think that will work.....I'll have to play around and see. These were uploaded before we switched most vids to iFrames......
NavyDads Admin (Paul) December 20, 2015 at 6:35pm

that depends on what software you have....you could try RealPlayer and download to your computer. From there you could write to disc or drive